skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
people give up reading the same reason they give up anything "hard". The combination of "prescribed texts" and "bad pedagogy". When i self teach...i start a book...downloaded immediately from libgen, if it sucks, i trash it, and download another immediately...if the author is not a time wasting hack, guess what? I'll buy that book immediately, having found the correct resource. It pains me to read what the most recommended books are for learning most hard subjects - they are generally on the poor side...they are generally not written as simply as possible. Yes - this is a hugely opinionated response.

Onto method - If the method in which it's taught is garbage/pedagogically horseshit...of course they will hate it. Learn maths with Paul Lockhart, or computer science from the ground up playing Turing Complete (on Steam)...or learning ANYTHING from someone like Brett Victor..and you'll see precisely the issue is with not just reading for fun, but doing any socially uncool thing like exercising the intellect.
Definitely a candidate I'd remember after interviewing....
No, I saw it. Congrats on getting one thing not completely wrong. Go for two next time. No point in trying to be perfect all at once.
A series was definitely not good enough. Really depends on what you're using it for. Netflix and web? Sure. But any old HDR tablet, that can maintain 24Hz, is good enough for that.

These are 2048x2732 with 120Hz displays, that support 6k external displays. Gaming and art apps push them pretty hard. From the iPad user in my house, goin from the 2020 non M* iPad to a 2023 M2 iPad made a huge difference for the drawing apps. Better latency is always better for drawing, and complex brushes (especially newer ones), selections, etc, would get fairly unusable.

For gaming, it was pretty trivial to dip well below 60Hz with a non M* iPad, with some of the higher demand games like Fortnight, Minecraft (high view distance), Roblox (it ain't what it used to be), etc.

But, the apps will always gravitate to the performance of the average user. A step function in performance won't show up in the apps until the adoption follows, years down the line. Not pushing the average to higher performance is how you stagnate the future software of the devices.
The routing wasn't nessisarily full spectrum though. There were a lot of crossovers in use.

I also believe I heard some of the precussion mics were targetting only one or two speakers.

At least in the case of the speakers for Jerry, they had a a seperate McIntosh hi-fi amp for each speaker, being fed out of a Fender-derived preamp and a many-way splitter. Owsley basically bought the every one that model amp that was in stock at dealers on the west coast. Hundreds of thousands of dollars just on those amps - they were something like 2 or 3k a pop even then.

The only reason they were even able to afford in the first place was that Owsley (Yeah that Owsley, who was also their primary sound engineer) had so much illegal cash from a decade of making most of the LSD consumed in the United States. Band never even paid for most it. It was more this crazy idea Owsley had and mostly paid for that they kind of rolled with.

That sort of thing was more than a bit of a pattern in that camp, and was a large part of the band's downfall. It got to a point where it seemed like half of Marin county was on the payroll, and there was so much money going out that they had to tour constantly, wether they wanted to or not. The heavy touring clearly had a major toll on Jerry both physically and mentally. A two or three year hiatus around '91 or '92 would have done him (and probably some of the other guys) a world of good.
There's no perfect way to do anything in software, especially when it comes to a database.
There are always tradeoffs.

There are times when I'd skip constraints and trust the application logic to handle it, sounds like you've run into those as well.

Personally I just have a really high bar when it comes to moving data integrity out of the db and into the app code. Stale data isn't usually my concern, I'm more concerned with how simply and clearly I can define the data contract with anything consuming the data.

When I can guarantee that a column marked as a foreign key will always be a valid foreign key, consumers aren't at risk of a whole class of errors when reading and writing data. Any one query may be marginally slower because the constraint is in the database and always executed, but I know for sure that I'll never have a frontend blowing up because they didn't realize the foreign key isn't really a foreign key, or a backend accidentally writing bad data because the foreign key value wasn't manually checked for validity before being written.

I can say that the larger the team I've been on the less I've seen issues with data integrity loving outside the database, assuming the project is architected well. When an entire team is dedicated to the database and another team, or teams, are dedicated to just the application logic that manages the db, it tends to be much better documented and tested.

Smaller teams have a tendency to along code around much faster and write fewer tests while still finding product-market fit. In those cases, database constraints are an absolute must in my opinion, app logic is just moving too quickly to have any faith in it maintaining data integrity and teams are often growing quickly enough that stuff falls through the cracks.

Honestly as long as someone on the project is seriously considering the tradeoffs, the team is in a pretty damn good spot regardless of what their needs and preferences end up being though!
They often work under a different set of political or administrative constraints that make these things impossible to execute. Seeing it done on one stretch of road is entirely different than allocating 100 miles worth of repaving budget to a 5 mile stretch to avoid inconvenience. That's a tough sell.
Cafes often charge more for niche items, mainly because they can. There's also the workflow of the barista to consider - leaving the espresso machine to get ice from the freezer disrupts the flow of constantly pumping out lattes.
Im not a front end dev but from what Ive read it seems like ES6 and native web components solve a lot of the problems react was originally trying to solve.

So is react losing the plot or just naturally it's ideas are being folded into the browser natively?
This is an odd analysis of the ICJ decision. The decision is preliminary. It finds that the ICJ has jurisdiction over the Israel/Gaza conflict, and that South Africa has standing to bring a case. Given that a plausible case exists, the ICJ considers preliminary measures --- injunctions, essentially --- to preserve South Africa's rights for such a trial.

Read Paragraph 62: "The Court is not called upon, for the purposes of its decision on the request for the indication of provisional measures, to establish the existence of breaches of obligations under the Genocide Convention, but to determine whether the circumstances require the indication of provisional measures for the protection of rights under that instrument."

The preservation of rights is a procedural matter for the court; they are measures to prevent prejudice against the case, and to prevent the irreparable harms claimed by the plaintiff. The facts under consideration there are viewed in the light favorable to the movant, because they are not in fact a disposition of the question. ["preservation of rights" filetype:pdf] is a good search here.

The ICJ did not in fact find that Israel had engaged in acts of genocide.

If you use a casual or non-legal definition of "genocide" --- "any campaign of ethnically targeted mass violence" seems like a reasonable one --- this is a live argument. But if you're going to cite chapter and verse from the decision and the Genocide Convention, I think you're clearly on the wrong side of the argument?
You may be thinking of Hackpad from 2014, which later was bought by Dropbox and morphed into Dropbox Paper. I guess I was thinking that a multiuser IDE is substantially different than a multiuser text editor. I did notice that Zed is by the same team that brought us tree-sitter, which is a wonderful innovation that many text editors are now using to good effect. I was wondering if were powerful enough for one person to be debugging some code in the same session that another person was refactoring.
> Even a minor side effect at this point does not seem like it's worth the bother.

People have died, how is it minor? Did you mean rare?
She was also recently on Hardcore History Addendum with Dan Carlin discussing the book.
>This is the same semantic argument of "Guns don't hurt people". Of course, guns hurt people. A physical object can be harmful without a human being to give it intent. It's a straw man argument that delves into the meaning of words than actually addressing if something is actually harmful or not.

Given the proposition that 'objects' harm people without human involvement, that does not in any way improve the null-hypothesis of wanting to prevent harm. If an earthquake or tsunami hits we do not shrug it off as an act of nature or god. We have an intent to prevent the disaster even if no human was involved. The comparison to guns is an ill fitted one. A gun that no man knows about cannot hurt someone. A person still has to wield it, compared to AI, people are definitely the ones wielding the weapon. Weapons, like AI is a tool. whereas guns have a very clear target and modus operandi, AI has no such thing. AI is by definition innocent of every crime in the book since you cannot demonstrate it to have morality in the first place. Which is a problem if someone has used it to commit crimes. Obviously AI doesn't kill people, the people using AI want someone dead.

In the context of the article, it means we have to take responsibility for what the AI creates regardless of its intent, precisely because there might or might not be someone behind with intent.
to be fair, they consider traction over all other credentials
I disagree.

Apple is selling hardware and scaling AI by utilizing it is simply a smart move.

Instead of building huge GPU clusters, having to deal with NVIDIA for GOUs (Apple kicked NVIDIA out years ago because of disagreements), Apple is building mainly on existing hardware.

This is in other terms utilizing CPU power.

On the other hand this helps their marketing keeping high price points when Apple now is going to differentiate their COU power and therefore hardware prices over AI functionality correlating with CPU power. This is also consistent with Apple stopping the MHz comparisons years ago.
Very interesting video, thx
That probably just takes a few hours, easy to do. And you can start/stop a few times to let cars go over.
I use a laptop that has a factory Windows Vista sticker on it. I don't find that noteworthy.
Ask HN: Best tool for detecting porn or abusive image
I am working on a side project which will generate images from sites. Of course I do want porn or gore images.

In the past I have used Google Cloud Vision, but this time, I do not want to use any Google service.
Given Google and Apple controlling the biggest app stores, X is forced to have moderation of some form if they want their app to remain listed.
My understanding of this phenomenon in DL is that its not due to anything intrinsic to gradient descent, the same principles and understanding apply.

Rather, it is that with very large dimensionality the probability that you spuriously get all derivatives to be zero is vanishingly small. That is, local minima are less likely because you need a lot of dimensions to agree that df(x_i)/dx_i = 0.

I may be wrong though!
Three times, yes.

I don’t have one, though.

Much like I don’t have a favourite number or colour any more. I have favourite sets of numbers and colour palettes!
Some people really seem to be truly delusional. It's obvious that the company's "privacy" is a marketing gimmick when you consider the facts. Do people not consider the facts anymore? How does somebody appeal to the company's "privacy-first strategy" with a straight face in light of the facts? I suppose they are not aware of the advertising ID that is embedded in all Apple operating systems. That one doesn't even require login.
They definitely used distant speakers, but yeah, not part of the WoS. I'm just saying that was cutting edge at the time.
Do good non-doc-worthy work => Get doc-worthy work => Write doc => Get promo
It doesn't surprise me. There are parts of Microsoft that are almost completely supported by the community. You've provided an improvement to their product for free. It's not like they're making money on it directly, and any easier you make it ensures stickiness in their platform.
If it's moved slowly enough, I don't see why traffic couldn't drive on it.
This one here right: https://twitter.com/OrenZiv_/status/1787891404313628749

I just saw it now. All the power to these people, they are absolute heroes. Also power to the protestors in the Al-Jazeera clip I cited earlier in the Bring Them Home Now protest for talking about Palestine.

I think, however—and it seems I’m not the only one—that far more is needed. This is not a large demonstration, especially given the stakes and the seriousness of Israel’s crimes.

The anti-zionist movement in Israel certainly exists, and is doing an amazing job. When I was in university I followed the works of Anarchists against the wall very closely (I don’t know if they are active any more though). I was also a member of the Icelandic Red Cross which worked closely with Israeli organizations (don’t remember which ones) in aiding victims of settler violence on the West Bank. If I remember correctly these organizations were mostly giving legal aid and monitoring checkpoints in the hopes it would prevent violence. Some of my colleges actually went to the West Bank to work with them.

But this was 15 years ago, and thinks have only gotten worse since then. I’m not optimistic that the current movements will have any more effects on policy than those of the last decade and a half (but they absolutely should still try). Like Daniel Levy says above, the pressure needs to come from the outside.
> > In case it is not abundantly clear by now: Apple's AI strategy is to put inference (and longer term even learning) on edge devices. This is completely coherent with their privacy-first strategy (which would be at odds with sending data up to the cloud for processing).

> Their primary business goal is to sell hardware.

There is no contradiction here. No need for luxury. Efficient hardware scales, Moore's law has just been rewritten, not defeated.

Power efficiency combined with shared and extremely fast RAM, it is still a formula for success as long as they are able to deliver.

By the way, M-series MacBooks have crossed bargain territory by now compared to WinTel in some specific (but large) niches, e.g. the M2 Air.

They are still technically superior in power efficiency and still competitive in performance in many common uses, be it traditional media decoding and processing, GPU-heavy tasks (including AI), single-core performance...

By the way, this includes web technologies / JS.
Nonprofit and church auditoriums and halls are often about fifty years out of date and are somewhat around “barely working”.
It's mainly people with generational wealth and robust safety nets that have the choice to take a risk for higher potential earnings. For most workers the risk just is too big, the odds of success too low, based not on their merit but their runway to screw up/burn money. To the extent it's true that "you gotta fail to succeed", you need to be able to afford failure, to succeed.
Yes, risky to buy. In the same way a slot machine has an expected value of 80-99% payout it’s still a bad use of money even if you only put in $5.

If you object to the word “risky” I used it in the sense of “uncertain you will get the value you expected”. Perhaps there’s a better word.
I 100% understand this issue.

We do have the ability to be anonymous if you want!
Also, we warn people to remove all personal info on your resume before posting.

Thank you for letting us know!
> Think about React. It's a JS framework, yet to invent it one needs to understand at least compiler and graph.

Are you hiring people to create new JS frameworks, or to use an existing one?
If your company uses leetcode to filter out employees then you are a leetcode team with your internal levels and ranks, not at all representative of the whole population of skilled IT people.
>Google operates in China albeit via their HK domain.

The Chinese government has access to the iCloud account of every Chinese Apple user.

>They also had project DragonFly if you remember.

Which never materialized.

>The lesser of two evils is that one company doesn’t try to actively profile me (in order for their ads business to be better) with every piece of data it can find and forces me to share all possible data with them.

Apple does targeted and non targeted advertising as well. Additionally, your carrier has likely sold all of the data they have on you. Apple was also sued for selling user data to ad networks. Odd for a Privacy First company to engage in things like that.

>Google is famously known to kill apps that are good and used by customers: https://killedbygoogle.com/

Google has been around for 26 years I believe. According to that link 60 apps were killed in that timeframe. According to your statement that Google kills an app a month that would leave you 252 apps short. Furthermore, the numbers would indicate that Google has killed 2.3 apps per year or .192 apps per month.

>As for the subpar apps: there is a massive difference between the network traffic when on the Home Screen between iOS and Android.

Not sure how that has anything to do with app quality, but if network traffic is your concern there's probably a lot more an Android user can do than an iOS user to control or eliminate the traffic.
> heard an uktrasonicator

Is this a joke?
How many people here are commenting based on their kids' experiences and not based on their own? Nothing in a 4 year-old trend (or whatever it is at this point) is going to be anticipated by people who were that age 10, 20, 30 years ago. (Sorry folks.)

My kids are just short of this age, so this article is very topical for me. I'm trying to encourage them to read, and they do, but it's also been difficult (in my experience) to make the transition to "big" books (i.e., anything other than a graphic novel). Books that I am 99% sure I read by their age, they don't seem to be responding to---and not just those books specifically, but anything in that class. And my kids have very low screen time.
PSYOP's are the most powerful and most used weapon in the U.S. arsenal.
Like all writing, proofs have a target audience. If you don't know what a Galois group or a modular form is, it's not the author's job to teach you.

Formal verification is getting more mainstream, but it's not there yet.
I wonder if you can deal with the acidity issue in a quick and dirty manner by just throwing in some baking soda into your grinds and brewing hot?
People say this a lot, but I really don't think it's a very satisfying explanation for having miles of one lane of a highway barricaded for weeks or months without any workers or equipment in sight, ever.

Everyone can name a stretch of highway they've seen treated this way, and this explanation just doesn't cover it.
The new flags apply regardless of -std value, as does -fno-common
My Dell Insprion turns ~15 this year and still runs the latest operating systems.
It's on TSMC n3E which is a slightly less dense but better yielding than the previous n3B.
> What impact is this having on the lower class?

Anecdote (but interesting): Channel 5's recent coverage of homeless populations living in the Las Vegas tunnels highlighted that they have electricity in there! A single cracked panel (salved from the trash!) provides more than enough juice to charge phones and even power TVs.
Isn’t the audio setup in that LED ball in Vegas a bunch of beam steering?
You're right, but it's also significantly more inconvenient.
> On a laptop it's not very practical.

> Because you can't swap the motherboard,

https://frame.work/ has entered the chat.
Not familiar with this magazine but the article is pure propaganda in favor of an absurd government bill. Feels odd to read. I hope people think about what would motivate one to write and publish a piece like this.
To use an existing one.

And tools are best used when they are understood.
Yeah iPad hardware is sadly limited by software and I think Apple shoots themselves in the foot.

It took them a long time to start allowing apps to use meaningful amounts of ram and managing custom fonts is a mess.

I also suspect the limited number of “pro” apps is partly thanks to how the App Store runs. If I were going to invest in developing powerful software for iPad, being at App Review’s whims and ever-changing policies seems like a pretty big risk.
> Home users may use their single computer usage license on all computers and mobile devices (USB drive, external hard drive, etc.) which are property of the license owner.
Weird stuff in the west exists, but lives as amateur/fan fiction online, with patreon being the big funding method. I believe this is directly due to publishers hesitance to touch anything "weird", just like you said with Hollywood.
What do you mean? Name 'countless locales' without guns. The only one that comes to mind are things like freight ships preferring water cannons over guns. There's also countless of examples where not having apropriate self defence is a death sentence to a culture, country or person living in a dangerous area
My dentist said that the purpose of semiannual visits is to bug patients on a regular basis to brush and floss properly. People will treat oral hygiene like going to the gym: they'll be all pumped up for a bit and then slack off eventually. The six-month mark is about when most people need that kick in the arse to get back on track.

Scientists have been learning how crucial and vital good oral health is, because it affects the health of every other organ system in the body. Periodontal disease is a direct cause of both diabetes and heart disease. They even recently learned that poor gum health is a causal factor in colorectal cancer.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5159274/
lol I just got a m3 max and this chip does more than 2x tops than my NPU does
Wow, I was there at the same time as a 46350. The Northern Tier was a (unappreciated) masterpiece of the Cold War.
Dang. +20% is still a nice difference, but not sure how they did that. Here's hoping M4 Max can include more tech, but that's copium.

960 GB/s is 3090 level so that's pretty good. I'm curious if the Macbooks right now are actually more so compute limited due to tensor throughput being relatively weak, not sure about real-world perf.
I am curious to know what her preferred editor is emacs?

This was funny though
Corporate real estate is a different beast. Residential real estate and corporate real estate do not mirror each other in the market. One can be in high demand while the other has excess supply.

Residential landlords are also much different than dealing with corp real estate owners. The terms, length of lease, laws and many other factors are completely different.
I would add: don't try to convince yourself that you actually like this book because it has great reviews or your friends recommended it. Plenty of novels with great reviews are actually trash (IMO, of course, but also in yours, which is the point). Admit to yourself that you don't actually like it and that's OK.